Thread: My heretical rules for enjoying str8s

number ten shouldn't offend anyone

the people with the least-active brains are obsessed with things (see: the mall)

the people with moderately-active brains are obsessed with opinions (see: talk radio)

the people with the most-active brains are obsessed with ideas (see: caltech faculty lounge)

Originally Posted by b7j0c

number ten shouldn't offend anyone

the people with the least-active brains are obsessed with things (see: the mall)

the people with moderately-active brains are obsessed with opinions (see: talk radio)

the people with the most-active brains are obsessed with ideas (see: caltech faculty lounge)

But it isn't my brain that is attracted to a besuty razor, it is my heart

I'm having some trouble with this line of thinking. Use it up and throw it out? Then why use a straight at all when you can do that with a 29 cent plastic razor? There's a reason we don't call straight razors "disposables." As for a razor being a thing of beauty as well as well as something that serves a purpose -- why not? Everything we use from our furniture to our clothes, to our cars has a certain look and it's in the nature of man to try to combine form and function. Look at the tools, weapons, jewelry and dwellings of the Celts and other ancient peoples. They hang in museums today as art. Let's face it, if appearance doesn't matter, why bother to shave at all?

Originally Posted by b7j0c

number ten shouldn't offend anyone

the people with the least-active brains are obsessed with things (see: the mall)

the people with moderately-active brains are obsessed with opinions (see: talk radio)

the people with the most-active brains are obsessed with ideas (see: caltech faculty lounge)

What if Im obsessed with things and Ideas, but not opinions?

Or grow a beard - the true remedy for the cheap. Trimming can be done by holding the beard on a rock and striking the captured hair with another rock. Very, very green. No cost, no CO2. (Hmm, that makes me wonder why the good Mr. Gore is clean shaven, but that's another question for another thread

Originally Posted by leadduck

I'm having some trouble with this line of thinking. Use it up and throw it out? Then why use a straight at all when you can do that with a 29 cent plastic razor?

As a cheapskate, I feel I can answer this question with easy confidence: Straights are sharper and lost longer

Even if a straight is honed daily, the $10 razor spent on ebay still easily outlasts 5 weeks ($10 worth of dull plastics).

Originally Posted by Bruce

Or grow a beard - the true remedy for the cheap.

Not necessarily, I found it very difficult to find a decent job with my scraggly beard.

I love this thread, some people can relate, and others are turned upside-down by the 11 heretical theses.

Originally Posted by richardhead

the 11 heretical theses.

nicely put! lol

Mom told me if I can't say anything nice . . . so I won't.

Brad